implemented using either a solderlessbreadboard, for simpler circuits, or an Altera Cyclone II FPGA board, for more complexmodules. A center focus of Carrol’s course is the “semester long project involving the design,implementation, and documentation of the computer processing unit (CPU) for a basic four-bitdigital computer called TRIS (Tiny Reduced Instruction Set Computer).” Including such aproject provided students with a clear goal in mind for the course, and set the importance for aclear road map of the course, list of topics, and nature of laboratory experiments [1].Carroll’s approach involving a semester long project also utilizes a similar method to teaching asthe “flipped course” method, which is discussed by Yelamarthi and Drake [2]. The
wireless sensor networks, intelligent agents, agent-based manufacturing scheduling, systems control and automation, distributed control of holonic systems and integrated manufacturing, agile manufacturing, virtual reality and remote laboratory applications in edu- cation. He has authored or co-authored various journal and conference publications in these areas. Mert Bal is currently the Chair and Associate Professor at the Miami University, Department of Engineering Technology, Ohio, United States of America. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Developing Robotics Engineering Technology Program to Address the Workforce Skills Gaps in
their teaching throughout theprogram. However, only one graduate student was a TA and had full access to undergraduaterecitation sessions; two other graduate students were teaching assistants but were involved withgrading and minimal classroom instruction. For this reason, the focus of the program was shiftedtoward learning about and discussing inclusive teaching, and away from implementation andformative feedback. In future iterations, consistent classroom, laboratory, and/or recitationinstruction will be a criterion to participate. It is expected that the TAs’ real-time classroomexperiences and the feedback cycle will generate rich discussion, challenge TAs’ thinking aboutinclusion and equity in STEM, and enhance TA and undergraduate
addition, online coursesettings allow students to learn the course materials at their own pace without being forced tofollow the pace of the instructor or the class [4-6].Although online education has its own advantages, the effectiveness of student experience inonline settings compared to in-class settings is questionable. Researchers around the world havebeen studying the effectiveness of online education [7-10]. Traditional in-class setting is in aprofessor-centered learning environment; where the professor teaches the theoretical componentof the course and explains the materials to the students directly within the limited class hours.Also, the practicum component is carried through the hands-on laboratory setting. Theinteraction in this
measures. Here, we present a comparison of the efficacy of a hands-on integratedmode of conducting physics experiments via experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) with thetraditional laboratory mode (non-ECP) of teaching undergraduate students enrolled in theIntroduction to Physics Experiment. We conclude that these two approaches are complementaryto one another. Undergraduate students who were enrolled in the Introduction to Physicslaboratory practical (N = 30) were a case study to elicit their epistemological beliefs aboutphysics laboratory work and their views on social engagement and academic anxiety. Parametricand nonparametric comparisons of central tendency were employed to measure the meandifferences between students using the ECP mode and non
Spring 2021 semester. The outcome will be reflected in a 2021 publication. The work is abased on continuing research from a previous ASEE conference paper titled “Initial impact of anexperiment-centric teaching approach in several STEM disciplines” [12].Chemistry Experiment ResultsWe used the oscilloscope software from the ADALM boards to log and save the data displayedon the software interface of the ADALM 1000 and ADALM 2000 in the form of voltagereadings during the Chemistry department hands-on lab.Results of Potentiometry Experiment: This experiment is set up with the pH sensor from thehands-on laboratory experiment research. The following results of the calibration set-up andcompiled the collected data. See in Table 2 below. The calibration
goals to investigate the efficacy of the stratified nature of eachteam—with participant expertise ranging from student to instructor, and education toengineering—on research and curriculum development. Additionally, we investigated the impactof the summer program on efficacy and attitudes toward teaching STEM. This paper reports onthe products produced by teams during the program, and program outcomes based on thequantitative, and preliminary qualitative, results of our investigations.2. The NSF RET ProgramThe NSR RET program focuses on creating opportunities for K-12 and community college facultyto engage in research in laboratory settings predominately on university campuses. Built on thesame framework as NSF’s successful Research Experience
questions were based on the students’survey developed by the researchers at Georgetown and HEDS [14-15] , and modified accordingto the peculiar aspects of our university. Because many of the engineering classes at SJSUinclude laboratories, projects or other group experiences, we wanted to create our own survey toask faculty members about these experiences. The research questions of the study are: 1. What are the impressions of faculty members to the learning environments in engineering courses after the switch to remote learning in Spring 2020? 2. What was the impact of the switch online in Spring 2020 to lab classes?COVID-19 forced many universities to transition quickly to remote teaching. Since Spring 2020,there was been many articles
all the educational components of the course, we asked students to rate theeffectiveness of each element. Students evaluated each teaching tool related to the effectivenessof each aspect in relation to their future goals. They indicated a trend toward an effectiveresponse related to the hands-on components: design project and the laboratory sessions, with aneutral response on the video lectures/reflections as well as the lecture sessions (Figure 9).Comments from the course evaluations, however, show that video lectures had a polarizingeffect; some students said the videos were “a waste of time” or “busy work” while others saidthey “enjoyed the video lectures” and another student said “[the video lectures made me] realizethat I wanted to
Paper ID #34049Global Impact of Experiment-centric Pedagogy and Home-based, Hands-onLearning Workshop at a Historically Black UniversityDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University fac- ulty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State University and the director of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engineering. His
building. Simultaneously,students are exposed to a college learning environment while actively participating in theseactivities. This paper will discuss the strategies employed to create these activities usingresources from existing college laboratory exercises and projects within the engineeringtechnology programs. Fifty-six students from different grades participated in the program basedon their interests. The emphasis on underrepresented minority groups aligns with xxxxUniversity’s commitment to diversity and aims to increase recruitment from schools with ahigher proportion of such students.BackgroundThe project’s goal was to enhance STEM awareness among minority communities and toincrease enrollment at the xxxxx campus of XXXXXX University. A
improve technical writing instruction in laboratory courses, a multidisciplinary team ofprofessors in the departments of Writing and Engineering (1) developed a curricular frameworkthat integrates common practices of teaching technical writing in tandem with existing engineeringlaboratory courses and (2) trained a set of students to be Engineering Writing Fellows (EWF),undergraduate engineering students who tutored peers in their technical writing assignments. Thispaper will share the student and instructor opinions of these initiatives employed in the LinearCircuits Analysis Laboratory course. Analysis of the initiatives was conducted via student surveyand comparison of student writing pre and post EWF tutoring. Results show students
military Frank: 7 years engineering Greg: 21 years engineering Henry: No professional experience James: No engineering experience Kimberly: 8 years, engineeringFour of the participants rose to positions of influence in their organizations before leaving to become facultymembers. Alan was the senior engineering manager, reporting directly to the CEO of his company. Codywas a senior developer in charge of overseeing the team of engineers on his projects. Ethan was a divisionmanager at a prestigious laboratory after completing his career in the military. Greg was the director ofengineering at his company before retiring.Henry began his teaching career immediately after earning his master’s degree in computer science. Jameshad a particularly
Paper ID #14933Hybrid Course Design in Manufacturing Courses to Improve Learning in theClassroomDr. Gozdem Kilaz, Purdue University - West Lafayette Gozdem Kilaz is an Assistant Professor of Aviation Technology Department at Purdue University. Dr. Kilaz holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering. She serves as the Chief Scientist for the Air Transport Institute for Environmental Sustainability (AirTIES). Her research is focused on avia- tion biofuels and sustainability. Her courtesy appointment with the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE) research center provides collaboration between
University.Dr. Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, is an Associate Librarian in Graduate and Undergraduate Services in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. She has an Ed.D. in Academic Leadership/Higher Education and an MS degree in Applied Technology/Instructional Design. She has over 10 years of experience teaching, designing instruction, and doing qualitative research both in and outside of a library context. Her research interests focus on library and technology-based instructional planning and course design, assessment and evaluation topics, as well as online teaching and learning.Dr. Matthew W Roberts, Southern Utah University Dr. Roberts has been teaching structural
years starting in the Spring of 2012. Ryan currently works as a Research Assistant in the Combustion and Energy Research Laboratory (COMER). His current research is focused on new catalyst development, ceramic materials for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), combustion, energy conversion, fuel cell modeling, fuel cell technology applications and system design. Ryan is a Syracuse University Graduate Fellow and an Astronaut Scholar. Page 26.505.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Developing T-Shaped Professional Engineers through an Advance Energy
students, and postdoctoral scholars are trained in a multidisciplinary environment, utilizing modern methodologies to address important problems at the interface between chemistry, physics, engineering, American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33358 and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem
work in this area andconcludes the paper.2. BackgroundIn the latter part of 1995, Old Dominion University's Department of Physics started adopting amore uniform method for teaching undergraduate laboratory courses. Following this change, in1996, the department released the first edition of a comprehensive laboratory manual forundergraduates. This marked a significant shift in the instructional methodology forundergraduate physics at ODU. The development of virtual laboratories is set to enhance thisteaching approach further. With the integration of pre-arranged educational materials, includingvirtual labs, educators will be able to adhere to uniform teaching standards. This uniformity willensure that students receive a consistent and coherent
assignments. The assignmentshave been designed based on the real life ergonomic problems in different areas ofergonomics. The students were challenged with five different assignments coveringdifferent sections of ergonomics, work design and safety. In addition, each student needsto submit a term paper or case study focusing on any specific application area ofergonomics towards the end of the semester. For each assignment, the students wereasked to study and investigate the ergonomic issues from their daily life accessories,classrooms and laboratories and offer possible solutions for the non-ergonomic designsand issues. For each assignment, the students need to prepare a report including the imageand brief description of the non-ergonomic design
were single-session (ca. 160 students), and therewere six to eight identical laboratory sections (ca. 20-40 students). A single instructor taught alllectures, and a common undergraduate teaching assistant workforce (10-12 individuals) sharedcoaching responsibilities across all lab sections. All IDE-related laboratory periods were held inthe program’s undergraduate makerspace [29]. Prior to the start of the IDE, in-class time wasdedicated to safety and tool competency training. In the weeks preceding the IDE, all studentswatched a video-based safety orientation, took an online safety quiz, and completed a self-pacedlaboratory experience that involved them demonstrating competencies in-person to a teachingassistant. All students viewed the same
and ability to teach course content. Instead, the SPVEL connects students’ 1)appreciation for laboratory discipline content and relevance to their career aspirations, 2)engineering role identity development as a function of participation within the lab, and studentsociocultural identities (race, ethnicity, and gender).Research QuestionSPVEL was used to answer two research questions. How do student’s sociocultural identitycharacteristics relate to their perceptions of value in a virtual engineering lab? How are students’perceptions of virtual lab value related to the sociocultural identities and lab report grades?Research Methodology and EnvironmentThis study was conducted in a capstone senior Mechanical and Aerospace engineering
from the perspective of systemthinking, and build a full-cycle green engineering design framework that is not limitedto the preparation and development of product materials. On this basis, a fulllife-cycle immersion teaching session is formed from the preparation design ofpolymer raw materials, to the injection molding of polymer products, to the promotiondesign of products, and finally to the recycling and reuse of products[12]. The School of Biotechnology has conducted several experiments in biologyteaching, such as the Biological Laboratory Safety Experiment, in which students willsimulate different levels of biosafety protection and practice biological waste sortingoperations to build awareness of biosafety and environmental
California, Davis and works on designing analog inte- grated circuits. As a development teaching assistant, he works on designing modern laboratory materials for undergraduate electrical engineering students. In his spare time, he enjoys working on automating solutions for physical problems using different programming languages. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A New Application-Oriented Electronic Circuits Course for non-Electrical Engineering Students Using Arduino and NI VirtualBenchI. IntroductionTeaching circuits to non-electrical engineering students has always been a challenging task since many ofthese students find the circuit theory
engineering, incorporating laboratory experiences into traditional coursework, and bringing awareness of electrochemical engineering to chemical engineers. Biddinger’s research involves applications of green chemistry and energy utilizing electrocatalysis, batteries, and novel solvents. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Program evaluation of a high school summer bridge program in chemistry and engineeringAbstractIn this paper we evaluate a summer college preparatory program for New York City high schoolstudents housed at Bronx Community College. The program was titled “Introduction to EnergyTechnology” and it focused on teaching chemistry and engineering
those points collected before the cart started moving and after the cart stopped; 2) Apply the equations for velocity and acceleration to calculate those parameters, and 3) Generate and format a graph the displays their data in a readable fashion. In the end, all students produced graphs similar to the one shown in Figure 4. MotionofCart onanInclinedRaceTrackFigure 4: Example of the Method 2 Excel Teaching ExerciseChange no. 2: Use Microsoft Word for Laboratory ReportingMethod 1: Two lectures are dedicated to the Microsoft Word software. During these lecturetimes, the students review their knowledge and / or learn new tools, such as using the equationeditor, inserting a graph
than those provided bytextbook publishers34.The online Graphics class at Cañada College was developed by an engineering instructor whohas been teaching the face-to-face version of the class for about 20 years, and has been teachingonline lecture courses (Statics, Dynamics, Circuits lecture, Materials lecture) deliveredsynchronously for the past several years. The online Graphics class is the first asynchronousclass to be developed by this instructor. Online course materials that have been developedinclude PowerPoint lectures, lecture videos, video tutorials, laboratory exercises, and homeworkassignments. Most lecture videos and video tutorials were created and edited using a tabletcomputer and screen capture software such as Camtasia Studio
instructors to proactively incorporate inclusive principles in various aspects oftheir course design, such as syllabi, content, assessment, pedagogy, and laboratories. Bydoing so, they can help students feel included and promote their sense of belonging. Whilethe comprehensiveness and breadth of the checklist may seem overwhelming, courseinstructors and faculty members are encouraged to read through the checklist and considerincorporating practices and strategies as they see fit for their courses and context.Alternatively, an instructor might choose just one of the categories listed in the frameworkand see what course changes might be possible with a more focused approach. The checklistincludes elements of inclusive teaching practices that can be
real time simulation of the powersystem. The GPS units are available for time stamping data received from PMUs and relays. Thelab has been featured in a prominent industrial trade publication 9 and is set to double in size witha $1 million equipment donation from Doble Engineering.The Setting and Testing Digital Relays laboratory course is taught by faculty and experiencedengineers from industry, with TVA routinely supplying adjuncts to teach actual industry practiceto a diverse group including traditional graduate students as well as practicing engineers.To expose students to a wide variety of equipment present in the smart grid, a new laboratorycourse was developed with specific assignments including: • Phasor Measurement Unit setup
minority high school and college students report STEM-pipeline sustaining gains after participating in the Loma Linda University summer health disparities research program. PLoS ONE vol. 9, no.9, e108497, 2017.[9] B. Yalvac, A. Ketsetzi, A., X. Peng, S. Cui, L. Li, Y. Zhang, D. Eseryel, T. F. Eyupoglu, and T. Yuan, “Cultivating evidence-based pedagogies in STEM education,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, June 2017.[10] B. Yalvac, H. D. Smith, P. Hirsch, and G. Birol, “Teaching writing in a laboratory-based engineering course with a “How People Learn” framework,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol. 108, pp
Paper ID #41378Work in Progress: Implementation of a Curricular Development Project forExperiential Learning in a Senior Capstone Product-Design CourseDr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing